This public lecture is staged annually in memory of the ecclesiastic historian Hans Lietzmann (1875–1942), Adolf von Harnacks’s successor as director of the Academy project The Greek Christian Authors of the First Centuries (GDS). The invited speaker is an internationally renowned scholar from the field of classical studies. The lectures address central topics of the history of ancient religion that are of relevance to the present day.

Diese öffentliche Vorlesung wird jährlich veranstaltet im Andenken an den Kirchenhistoriker Hans Lietzmann (1875–1942), den Nachfolger Adolf von Harnacks als Leiter des Akademienunternehmens Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte (GCS). Es wird dazu jeweils ein international bedeutender Referent aus dem Bereich der Altertumswissenschaften eingeladen. Die Vorträge behandeln zentrale Themen der antiken Religionsgeschichte mit einer Bedeutung für die Gegenwart.

This public lecture is staged annually in memory of the ecclesiastic historian Hans Lietzmann (1875–1942), Adolf von Harnacks’s successor as director of the Academy project The Greek Christian Authors of the First Centuries (GDS). The invited speaker is an internationally renowned scholar from the field of classical studies. The lectures address central topics of the history of ancient religion that are of relevance to the present day.

This public lecture is staged annually in memory of the ecclesiastic historian Hans Lietzmann (1875–1942), Adolf von Harnacks’s successor as director of the Academy project The Greek Christian Authors of the First Centuries (GDS). The invited speaker is an internationally renowned scholar from the field of classical studies. The lectures address central topics of the history of ancient religion that are of relevance to the present day.